Went to Grotto Falls today (very cool falls you can climb behind) and on way back, with Jer on shoulders and Mei Mei on backpack, we (with others) spot a female black bear and her two young cubs (so young they're still brown). They're in a tight ravine that the trail circles around at the end of a valley. At one point mom's about ten feet below us, casually munching, with her cubs frolicking on logs behind her (if she hadn't been between us and them, I would have backed out pronto). So we got some more nice pix I'll try to remember to post later on.
So 7 bears (1 male, 2 females, 2 older cubs and 2 young cubs) in four days of hiking. Really amazing to observe them for so long and so peacefully in the wild. Quite magical, to include the element of danger.
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